2. PROJECT GOAL, OBJECTIVE, APPROACH

GOAL

To build civic engagement to facilitate authorities to provide social concession land for poor families and empo-wer them to improve sustainable livelihoods.

OBJECTIVE

To pilot a right-based approach through planning and implementation of Social Land Concession program for sustainable poverty reduction of landless and land poor families through an integrated rural development.

APPROACH

LWD applies its current right-based approach to achieve the overall goal of the project.

EXPECTED RESULT

Empowered communities and Commune councils prepared the social land concession plans, facilitated authorities to approve them and allocate land to target land recipients.

About 1,300 landless and land poor families living in Kampong Speu and Kampong Chhnang provinces are expected to benefit from the project.

Each family will get a land of 30m by 40m for residence and an agricultural land of 1 hectare for selected land recipients in Kampong Chhnang and 1.5 hectares for those in Kampong Speu.